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THE ST. LOUIS STAR THE ST. LOUIS STAR 3 1 MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1924. FREIGHT RULING HEAVY PENALTIES IN TRAFFIC CASES STORY OF LASHING MAIDS 'BLACKMAIL' Millionaire Hobo in California, and His Nemesis in St. Louis Police Scour Town for Man in Jail ANATOLE FRANCE DIES CLINGING TO ATHEISM TO LAST -1 JAMES EADS HOW SAYS MRS.

HARVEY RECEIVED 5,000 Hobo Leader Asserts He Thought Heart Balm Prob J' iu I i it A-J- i i I 2- 1 x. i 1 v.v. Cora wife. J.ad- How ami Mrs promise when How took a what an awful shock I must be to the shade of my fine old "grand- father. James 15.

Eads. They asked me orate when tU'-y put a bust! of him in the Hall of Fame, or Chamber of in Washing- ton. in commemoration of his feat; In building the Fads bridge. I de-i dined, an'l recommended a cou- sin." "Could you have praised thft work of your ancestor?" "I could have, and still have been honest v.ith myself, for in the day of rny grandfather Lincoln was the only man who had seen the light. Uneoln was corre- snondine- with Karl Marx.

Men like James H. Fads did not fee the i SET NEW RECORD Speeding and Overriding Boulevard Stops Cost JVlore Now in Gty Courts. Speeders and autoists who hav been ignoring boulevard stops are finding the going more difficult In the two city courts. An examination of records for August and September in City Court No. 1, Judge Homer's division, and No.

2, Judge Matthew's, shows that the two judges have Increased average fines. The records also show that the courts will set' a record this year for the number of cases tried, number fined, ami in the total amount of money collected. Up to the first of October, a total of 29,280 cases have been tried in the two courts and a total of $67,737 collected by Homer and Matthews. Tills exceeds the total of all last year when 36,023 cases were tried and only $60,850 was collected. This also sets a.

new high mark for the entire history of the two courts, the best previous year being 1S21 when Anthony Itt-ner, now a circuit judge, was on-the city bench, and there were 28,667 cases tried and in fines collected. 30 to 85 Per Cent In speeding cases the records show that during August the average fine was $5 for 2S miles an hour, $10 for 3 0 miles an hour and $2 5 for 4 0 miles an hour with an occasional higher fine for greater speed. In many cases smaller fines were assessed, as in cases of first offenders. Thrge dollars was added to each fine for court costs. Since September, however, the scale has been increased to $12 for 28 miles an hour, $17 for 30 mlies an hour and $4 0 for 4 0 miles an hour.

Costs also are added to these fines so that in some cases the increase in fines has run close to 8 5 per cent and none is less than 5 0 per cent. A more striking increase is noted in the boulveard stop cases. For a long time after Introduction of the boulevard stop order, the city judges were letting offenders off with a payment of, the $3 court costs. Now it is different. Both judges are assessing a flat fine of $5 with $3 costs added, Figures for August.

During August in city court No. 1, $4,136 was collected in traffic case fines, and in September $4,404 wa3 collected on forty-one fewer cases. In city court No. 2. $2,042 was collected In August, while in! September the figure was $2,844 with eighteen fewer cases.

1 The amount collected in both) courts for August, therefore, was 1 i i In 1 SAYS PRIMA DONNA Dressmaker Stripped and Beaten With Whip, She Tells Budapest Police. BERLIN. Oct. 12. (Universal Service.) "Blackmail.

is the counter charge Charlotte Boeder, noted European prima donna, hurls at her accusers who accuse her with flogging ami mistreating pretty girLs she engagt-d as maids charges which are the sensation of Budapest. Vienna and Berlin, and which the Budapest police are now investigating. The opera star, a well-known t'gure In the society of Budapest, rst brought this charge at a cross-examination to whicn she was subjected for several hours by the Budapest police. She again denied all accusations and charged Ma-thilde Mewlor, dressmaker on hoce testimony the wh'e casa rests, with Idling friends that sh'j knew how to get a dowry and money to get married; She would report the prima donna to the police and get 0,000.000 crowns for it. Mile.

Messier told Budapest police that the prima donna engaged her ostensibly to keep her in order. Instead she swears sh" was imprisoned in the rooms foi three months, forced to undrew completely and stay practically nude all that time, her clothing being taken away from her. Leather Whip I'sod. Any protest, she charged, result- ed in cruel punishment by the prima donna, who, she said, bound and fettered her and mercilessly beat her with a leather whip. These floggings, she said, were fre- quent occurrences, often under- taken in the presence of men and women friends of the prima donna, Mile Boeder said it would impossible to keep anybody pris- oner against her will in a hotel like the Ritz.

Her rooms, she declared, 1 were unlocked or open all the time and were visited many times a day by chambermaids. She admitted that the dressmaker stayed in her rooms in an undressed condition, but said that Mathllde herself had preferred this because she had only a heavy dress and the season ws very warm. Investigation by the police, however, has resulted in the information that Mile. Roeder has been connected with similar affairs even before the war It-Vienna, where for a long time she maintained a fashionable apartment. Almost every week, police have learned, she used to advertise for "a young maid." In this fashion, she engaged in a year twenty-eight iyoung and pretty girls.

The other residents residents of the apartment nouse still tell of scenes which took place In the prima donna's apartment. Massage Mistakes Costly. According to these former neigh- IX TT 3X TT I lem Had Been Solved. uv ifAiiitv r. A Staff 0rr-liid-iit of The St.

IjOtiis LOS AXOKLE.S, CAU, Oct. IS. I saw our own Jar.ie.j JIow hero yesterday. Four. 4 him In the "hall" of the International Brotherhood Welfare Association, It's a barn-like place In the rear of i Gypsy Ian'a Medicine Show on! Kat Fifth street the Market street of the city of angel.

"Hello, old jocker," hailed him. How shook ands aii'l smiled a wistful smile, indulgently. For How loves the Lobo, but hates his vernacular. "You are a long- way from home," he said, "hut even If you ere I am not g-oing' to give you a story. I won't discusa Sister Harvey.

Now don't you dare tell me that you came all the way out here to see me, because I know better -I read The Star and you are writing: pood roada storie3 -Again that smile and the twinkle in kindly eye. How proposed coffee and we left the hall, its odors and its hoboes, and strolled up the main ten. East Fifth seemed like home, for the Mirror. of Market street are reflected on every How led the way through an open door. "Keen here for years he s-aid.

They knew How. But there wna no rush of waiters, no bowing, scraping captain. Just a friendly greeting from the barkeep and a "ho, bo" from those who were bolting beans. It was Just a dump, a yarery, a place typical of thi Airy that get their trade from the who an traveling tne umy beans, bread and buttermilk, took a chance on coffee. JL.

i I "Tell me about Mrs. Harvey's breach of promise suit," I urged. i Once more, the wistful smile. "All I can pay is that like Mark Twfiin. I am just sawing wood." How ate his beans.

Queer Sort of Man. Queer sort of a man, James Kads How. Picturesque in his way but certainly a disappointment as the Millionaire Hobo. Tall, thin, keen-eyed. LiOok of the eagle.

Strong mouth, with ft wee little eoup strainer instead of the Van Dyke of old. Tall and angular. III-rittiriE- clothes coat. pants and vest, of a different pattern. Somber, but neat.

Illack belt, always; trying to get loose from the trous-! -rs. Soft collar on a white shirt With badly arranged black kni But his eyes they talk and you strange things. They are of a man who sees it all clearlv. but who can't make world understand. "Everything is lopsided," Howj aid.

"Two and two do not make four for the working man, but two and two make more tban four for others. We are living in an honest universe and I believe that we need en industrial system that will be i both honest and equitable. Henry Ford hit the mark when he said that the people who do the least work get the most money; that tuple who do the most work the least money. Take our broth- erhood men who went out to fight' the forest fires. The forests were worth millions, but the men who fought the fury of hell, who had their shoes and clothing burned from their bodies while fighting the flames, were paid an hour.

I "The law is wrong. It is made 1 1 tie. I eyes the' lisrlitjf nor does TJdison. in this day. boulevards yesterday.

Regine Ford gets a glimmer of it now and Fiory, introducing the first inno-then but only a vation and Mrs. Walter Fassish, About SiMer Harvey. New Yijrk, the second. Mrs. Pas- "And now," I suggested, "tell sish used the peacock feathers as me something of Sister Harvey?" a quaint trimming to a white cling- How replied "is ing gown of watered silk, an admirable trait.

It should be There is an increasing tendency rewarded. This much and no more: for skirts to mount toward the Sister Harvey was t-ssociated with knee." Sleeves are returning to me in the Rrotherhood. She was an i favor. A daring attempt by two officer. We were engaged.

I found dressmakers to reintroduce the I could not marry her; she found short waist has failed dismally, she could not marry me. Why" The ascendancy of the Ameri-Because we were Incompatible, can woman in matters of dress is I thought it wrong, however, for a finally proved by the forthcoming man to become engaged to a worn- departure' for the United States of on, spoil her career, perhaps, and Jean Patou, who declares: do nothing for her. So I called ai "Hitherto Americans have come meeting of the of the T. B. W.

flnance committee explained the situation and usked for a recom-tell mendatlon. The committer voted her a sura of money from the prin-veryjciple of what is left of my funds, Heart balm? They do call it that. Paris Mourns Beloved Amthor of Thais' and 'Revolt of Angels PARIS, Oct. 13. (By U.

Anatole France is dead end all Paris today mourned his passing. "Throughout the civilized world today," says the Echo de Faris. summing up Partslen opinion of the beloved writer, "all those who love beauty in the world and whj appreciate royalty of the spirit ar in mourning." The author of "Thais" and Jongleur de Notre Dame" passed away at Tours yesterday after a long Illness. He was SO years old and had lived a life rich In literary activity. Funeral a rrangementii have not been announced pending openinff of the author's last testament to e-ay.

The body is laid out In plain whl'e night shirt, in accordance with M. France's wish. "I'll never see you again," ha told his wife Just before he died, evidently dinging to his well-known atheistic beliefs to the last. Paris Feels Loss Keenly. Paris, here the writer was born, and which he described faithfully in many of his books, took hid death with a keen sense of pet-scnal loss.

The press today paid his unanimous homage, asserting be will live in history as one of France's greatest literary figures, a writer who carried. on the glory of Frwich, literary tradition of Chateaubriand. Hugo and Renan. "The body of M. France muit be placed in the Pantheon along with of our other great men." aya iQuotidien.

the Left organ, and (Journal asserts: "Regardless of the fact thai at present a party opinion or cult claims Anatole France, French lit 'erature can mourn him In superl-j crity to this melee." M. France's real name Jacques Anatole Thibault. He wu jihe son of a royalist bookseller was born in Paris. April 16. 1S4 4.

Atot I'opular Books. Anions bis most popular work ire: "The Crime of Sylvestre Bon- lard," "At the Sign of the Rein 1 Pedauque." "Le Jongleu de Notre Fame," "The Revolt of the Angels" and "The Opinions of Jerome Cogniard." If you have a telephone, your credit is K'o'd and you may tele-phono v.ior Want Ada to The Star. Olive f.btiO. Tor LonMl Cash en Good COAL CALL rs ui d11vr UTwher nnd allow 60c pr ton off our current llt rloM on ton lot rtr more if jmtd for on dellTry or by chck itiU1 rn At. I'rlc on our not, UTiDod.

Anchor Coal Co. 6rna Z.I.IO Giand 14 6 Cerund TT Sale of 360 Hats .33 Sport Hats! Trimmed Hats! "$1.33 for a new Hat" alone Is an unusual induce menL We bought 300 Hats severe reductions and offer them at this special price. Smart creations of felt, ve-lour, satin, velvet and brocade in the newest styles and colors. $6,178 and in September it wasjbors, Mile. Roeder tied girls up In $7,248 with fifty-nine fewer cases, the bath room with the aid of her ON TERMINAL R.R.

RATES REVERSED S. Supreme Court Decision Is Against Four Western lines. WASHINGTON. Oct. 13.

(Special.) The United Statea Supreme Court today reversed the United Stales District Court at St. Louis in its ruling in the contempt proceedings instituted against the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Ioui.s and the eastern railroads included in its membership. The proceedings were brought by four western lines, the Frisco, Missouri Pacific, Missouri-Kanas-Tex-as and tbe Kock Island, in an effort to force the eastern lines and the Terminal to cease a policy of making the western lines pay the terminal charges on incoming freight delivered to the western lines ty the eastern roads and also on outbound freight delivered to the eastern lines by the "western lines. In the district court, three circuit judges who heard the case, held the Terminal anil the eastern lines guilty of contempt of court in failing to comply with the decree of the United States Supreme Court in the original anti-trust suit against the Terminal in The trial court upheld the contention that the original decree provided that the Terminal and its eastern member lines should stop the practice of breaking the rates! on the east side of the river, thus forcing the western lines to pay all transfer charges over the river for both incoming and outgoing freight.

The trial court ordered the Ter- eerf e- to cea3 tnis lorm of discrimination asainat the western lines. The supreme court, in its decision today, holds that the division of the Joint rates on freight handled through St. Louis should he submitted to the Inters! ato Commerce Commission for a decision. llailroaOs Win SuiC WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.

(By I. XT N. S. The St. Louis-San Fran cisco Railroad and the Missouri Pacific Railroad today won a suit to escape payment of $26,820 in taxes to Craighead County.

Arkansas, under the corporation over due tax law of the state when the United States Supreme Court denied an appeal by Arkansas for review of the case. MASONS TO RAISE OVER $1,000,000 FOR TEMPLE Three hundred men and women team captains already have been named to participate in the campaign to raise more than a million dollars for the completion of St. Louis Masonic Temple, now being erected on Lindell boulevard, just west of Grand boulevard. It was announced today at temple campaign headquarters in Hotd Statler. The three hundred captains will each organize teams of eight members.

Julius Seidel, general chairman, spoke at a meeting of the executive committee at Hotel Statler at noon today. The actual soliciting of subscriptions will begin on Oc tober 2 3 and continue until to November 5. The temple, when fully completed, will represent an investment of more than $3,000,000. About $2,000,000 already Ja been raised for the structur. Today's Thoughts Roosevelt made word "square" stand out as one of the Incontestable rules for success.

When confidence goes out goes the limelight. out. A smile is an indication of a happy mind. Tbe man who makes a long mark in this world is a specialist. Star Want Ads specialize in selling for advertisers and satisfying readers.

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I 4 1 i Tit 2 rw RICHARD BENNETT in a of Xtirf "TO LET" Co'ean EMILIE LIA Clarence Kock ard Sa-n Einus rot? HOLTZ Tony aaJ C-rf" -Tho's Cat 5. 5. LEVIATHAX OECHESTEA rit Nelson Direetor, aa E-imett O'Xara. Te-or V-r5 Table! nllxfc tit Frank Reichmuth, 472 4 Kossuth avenue, disappeared Saturday uc completely as iloudini. His wife and her brother, M.

F. Heier, went to police headquarters and told Chief of Detectives Hoagland that Reichmuth could not be found. They called each police district on the telephone and canvassed the hospitals. There was no sign of the missing man. Bright and early today.

Reichmuth appeared at his home, siightly the worse for wear and tear. "I've hud the police looking for you." said Mrs. Reichmuth. "That's funny," replied l.e-r husband. "They have had me ver tiinoe Saturday n'ght.

1 ran into a truck and they tossed me into the brig. I asked them to call you up and they promised to do it. There was a fellow named Harry there who s.tld he would take care of it." At the Fourth District station where Reichmuth was held. it was said that lie was charged with eure'ecij driving. The poll -vinen on duty said Reichmuth did ot ask to be allowed to telephone to his wife.

voting nephew and beat and flogged them. The beatings were especially hard if the girls made the slightest mistake in massaging the prima donna. The singer's denials are supported by Director Marencio of the Ritz Hotel at Budapest where Mm. Boeder lived. The prima donna announces that she will produce a large number of witnesses from Budapest society who attended en tertainments In her suite, to dU-' prove the charges.

Meanwhile, the police have as certained that she is a younger sister of the Countess Tarnksow who years ago played the principal role in a sensational murder trial in Venice that attracted the attention ot the whole world. JURY BEING PICKED TO TRY WIDOW OF SLAIN FARMER MIDDLKBURG, Oct. IS. (By I.N. Mrs.

Annie Willow, charged with first-degree murder in connection with tht slaying of her husband. Harvey Willow, pleaded not guilty today. Selection of a jury was Immediately begun. While the. woman was making her plea, her daughter.

Ida. sat in the courtroom, her big blue eyes filled with tears. The defendant wept when her son, Glenn, 11. came into court. Mrs.

Willow is alleged to have caused Ralph Shadel, her 17-year- old sweetheart, to shoot her hus- band while they were in the woods hunting. Shadel has been convicted aml sentenced to serve from ten to twenty years. 'FT TT IT. All Regular Sizes Extra Sizes Up to 50 1 Styles: LACE-TRIMMED RIBBON-TRIMMED EMBROIDERED BEADED BELTED Materials: CANTON CREPE SATIN CANTON CHARMEUSE JERSEY TRICO SUEDE SPORT CHECKS 1 at mmmmi TT "IT" Again the Unusual! Unusual at a -r- 'K Pacific nd AtUstic Thoto. Harrej, vilio filttl for breach WOMAN APPEARS WITH SHOULDERS ROUGED IN PARIS Another American Wears Feath- ers as Trimming at Top of Gown.

PARIS, Oct. 13. Service.) Rouged sjioulders and peacock feathers appeared on the to Paris to get their dress ideas. but now we creators are forced to seek ica." our inspiration in Amer- Patou intends to spend four months in intensive study of the American woman. Incidentally, he also intends to present the met ropolitan museum with a collec- tion of letters from Gen.

Lafayette. city officials to review POLICE PARADE TOMORROW City officials and members of the Board of Police Commissioners will review 1,2 5 0 members of the St. Louts Police Department at the annual parade tomorrow. The parade, led by Chief of Police O'Brien, will start from Twelfth boulevard and Market street at noon. The marching men will be divided into infantry companies, each company commanded by a captain.

The police band, zouaves and ar- niored automobiles will be in line. gjFits or Epilepsy Remedied Discovery by Dr. Frod Grant Proves Most Terrible Cases of Fits or Fpilcpsy Can Be Ilemccliexl. WILL BE SENT FREE! Wonder hBvi Iwfn accomplished by Ir. Fifd K.

Trnnt's discovery of liom treat-iix-nt f.ir and pli-S7. Investigation t-ars out hm claims that fit are n.edless and that the ort casfs to 1 roj.er treatment. Among thousands of other b.i rar t'ii treatment, W. s. Hilton of Went worth.

testifies that he has found relief Vy following direetionv. It has now Leen two year s'n-- Mr eine. H- sais Hilton Ux a Crop of medi- '1 am w.ll, haven't had lu dicme for two Tefcr take any of and have bad no r. turn sy I am truly thar.W- ful and will always vnux? your Methods." 1 Xow everyone an try the same treatment i has been so effective for manr fornwr mifTerers. in the privacy of their own hnoa i without It a eent.

Jnt send vonr nanoy age. addrea and description of i-our ease to the Dr. ed K. (irant kev- i me Kansas City, Mo. Advert me- mcnt.

AMFSF-MnXTS TONIGHT AT 3 Main. Wed. and 1-1 ALT Kit SHARP at vharp in Fif3 In Hi Majrnlficent if Kwstand's Komantic Coined 'CYRANO de BERGERAC Nit Sunday A a Attraction Sfat International Thiir. Kume. IN THE NEXT ROOM Ky T.

it-ect MATIVEE F.ofcsor. ard H.irri't Ford. CAST PRODCTIOX from Th.aier WED. EZST SEATS SI. 50 s.

aOc Sat. 7E7f3ITl JACK REID GRAND OPFK Hci: AS V5UAL FX P5 am sum 1 Collection of Beautiful Dresses Drastically Low Price but it was just plain compensation. How much? It was in excess of I thought the whole mat ter was settled. Never gave it aj ihr e- friends in St. Louis and elsewhere will come to think as I do." (Mrs.

Harvey has admitted receiving $2,250 in settlement.) "How about the honeymoon you are now having?" I ventured. The eyes blazed with a softening light. "Wonderful," How paid "We are as happy as two children, or as two old fools. If you will. Wc have a little cottage out on West Tenth street, at 2321.

My wife has good taste and the place Is prettvr. She has ome musical talent, and there is a piano. mere was a party at my home the other night and we were all very happy. performed the feat of the evening by blowing out all the candles with i a single puff. You must come to the hall tomorrow night and see the big party they have arranged i for me.

IM love have you." i Reporter Attend-; Party. 1 went to the pnrtj in the hall bf.ck of Gypsy Dan's Medicine: Show. The entrance Is reached through an alley. A stew-king guardt the tj'ior. demanding a dime or a ti- k-t.

It was. as the bo would say, a ihvckrr board affair! 1 a inlxd party of black, white; and ellow. Uach and every class of liuboiimu was there th baluiorf Mild dingoes, fuzzy tails and gay! eats', candy dancers and jerries, 'ambers and mop Marys, pearl div- ers. swampers, razor backs. speo bums, sewer ind SKinners.

I'ven the rummies were there snoring in their alcohol under the benches. Many arrived early and ducked Uto the shower room to crum-up for the show-down and hand-out. How was everywhere, How- beamed. Lyda de la llesto. Mexican girl.

who lives across the alley. a native dance. The boeS roared their delight. Fre.l Fry. jnst off a rattler, did a juggling act.

John CasMdy. long-haired, bare-f 01 ted and radical, played a fiddle. Howe talked of his religion, 1 he concluded his remarks thrush for the food Ltgan. The "pick" of the stocks of several manufacturers is offered at a price that will accomplish remarkable savings for thoso who participate. Splendid, new styles and materials feature this and a visit here tomorrow will convince you that they are marvelous values for $5.50.

for the powerful, not for the weak. Contracts are wrong they are usually made between a strong power and a eringing' individual. "The scheme of things is wrong. It is all contrary to our first prin- des, to the mosaic law to tii-: j.iehings of Jesus. It breads class hatred, dissatlsi action, crime." Taps on tireasy Table-.

How's fingers tapped the greas-y table. His thoughts were fur ahead of his speech; his mind planets away from the dirty dump in which we were sitting. "My dear old he rim-tlnued, "saw very early that there was something queer about me. She sent me to dad's friends, to be talked to. "Dad.

you know, -was vice, president of the Wabash Railroad. Many of friends were lawyers and it fell my lot to go to Fred-prick W. Lehmann and Henry S. Priest to be "talked to. I listened, then I talked.

I presented my arguments. I got them in corners, nnd they admitted my contentions rere right, and jut. "Mother, as I raid, knew my dencles and was afraid I would di- In a poor house. That would all right if the bed was clean. She R.ave me one-half of my quarter tif the estate, and pnt the other Jialf trust for me.

That was all right, too. I have spent one-half of the quarter on my hoboes, and I spend ail the income from the trust on them. Sometimes I think mm I 7a ti ml il a in i IM 1 Bargains Will Be 1 mmjpm ai. i v. --r BIG ACTS 9 AND M0VT2S As Oiiv td.o as a i Tin.

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